Error rates of M-PAM and M-QAM in generalized fading and generalized gaussian noise environments

Hamza Soury, Ferkan Yilmaz, Mohamed Slim Alouini

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Abstract

This letter investigates the average symbol error probability (ASEP) of pulse amplitude modulation and quadrature amplitude modulation coherent signaling over flat fading channels subject to additive white generalized Gaussian noise. The new ASEP results are derived in a generic closed-form in terms of the Fox H function and the bivariate Fox H function for the extended generalized-K fading case. The utility of this new general closed-form is that it includes some special fading distributions, like the Generalized-K, Nakagami-m, and Rayleigh fading and special noise distributions such as Gaussian and Laplacian. Some of these special cases are also treated and are shown to yield simplified results.

Original languageEnglish
Article number6589292
Pages (from-to)1932-1935
Number of pages4
JournalIEEE Communications Letters
Volume17
Issue number10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • additive generalized Gaussian noise
  • and Nakagami-m fading
  • generalized-K fading
  • Laplacian noise
  • pulse amplitude modulation
  • quadrature amplitude modulation
  • Symbol error probability

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